Cost Analysis Prints

'We need your views on cost-benefit and risk-benefit.'

"This costs $35 with side effects or, if you prefer, $127 without side effects."

"Excellent presentation. Would you like to continue or do you need to reload?"

Businessmen trying to prop up a line-chart with sticks

"Maybe now, we could look at customer care'?"

"We seem to be spending more on defence than on things to defend"

"Who's got the hammer?"

Where are they now?: Office of Management & Budget - Grumpy.

"Who wants to hear a funny story about the third quarter?"

'Now that we've defined 'happy deficits' let's try it out on the stockholders.'

'You earned this corner office by cutting corners...'

Economic Outlook Conference - 'Remember the seating is optimist, pessimist, optimist,...'

"Our new information management system has just worked out where we wasted most money last year. . . It was on the new information management system."

Businessman sees door sign 'Department of Mismanagement and Overbudget'.

"You need to justify your own existence first."

'The government's right. Not counting, food, clothing, energy, shelter, health care, or transportation, inflation is hardly going up.'

'Yo-you Ma will now raise our spirits and assuage our pain.'

'I'd like to explain my ideas for economy within the company.'

'We're asking what america can do without to reduce the deficit...no, ma'ma! the Gop and Dems are not options!'

"Well the good news is that we did save a little money by not investing in cyber crime protection...."

Department of efficiency and cost analysis.

'Honestly Bob, it's not that bad. If you can make as much next year as you did this year you'll be able to pay off your outstanding taxes for last year. That'll just leave the interest, the tax for this year and... my fees.'

Granny with balanced pie chart

'The deficit doesn't look nearly so bad now that we've switched to Arabic numerals.'

"It's swings and roundabouts – one goes up the other goes down."

"After an extensive analysis of your company's strengths and weaknesses our recommendation is to give us more money."

"We may have to rob from the rich AND the poor."

'As the government sees it, the U.S. budget would be fine if more deficit earners like you, Mr. Wald, go on the ball!'

"What comes after zillion?"

An Everyday Explanation of the Federal Budget.

'I have no one to blame but myself, for now.'

"Unfortunately the first thing they cut was the stationery budget..."

'We spend a lot, borrow a lot, tax a lot. It keeps things from getting boring.'

"That's more like it Perkins..!!"

'Dow, Jones, Russell & Nikkei - Leading economic indicators.'